topic '-exec cmd' in find command in Operating System - HP-UX

'-exec cmd' in find command

Gary Yu — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 10:38:32 GMT

Dear all,

Does anyone know how to specify 2 parameters with the '-exec cmd' in find. e.g, I need to copy all files for the last week to another directoy, but it looks to me the cmd with -exec only takes one parameters(like rm), so how can I do that with one line, instead of a script:
find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec ??? {} \;

Re: '-exec cmd' in find command

Jan Sladky — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:03:12 GMT

Hi,

try

find . -type f -mtime -7 -exec cp {} /dir \;

br Jan

Re: '-exec cmd' in find command

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:08:40 GMT

Collected files on using find commands are given as {} to -exec option.

find . -type f -mtine -7 -exec cp {} /destination-dir/ \;

You can use multiple -exec there as,

find . -type f -mtine -7 -exec ll {} \; -exec cp {} /destination-dir/ \;

Re: '-exec cmd' in find command

Gary Yu — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:14:57 GMT

thank you guys, it works fine!